Summary

• Machine Learning is useful for
  a) Datamining (credit worthiness)
  b) poorly understood domains (face recognition)
  c) programs that must dynamically adapt to changing conditions (Internet)
• Machine Learning draws on many diverse disciplines:
  Artificial Intelligence,
  Probability and Statistics,
  Computational Complexity,
  Information Theory,
  Psychology and Neurobiology,
  Control Theory,
  and Philosophy.